Field work

Captures and handling

captures by hand, using nets or box-traps ; biometry, marking and ringing, blood sampling, biopsy, collect of stomach contents ; equipment of animals with PIT tags, radio- and GPS-collars, activity recorders, ARGOS tracking transmitters.

• Professional training on mechanical and chemical captures of wildlife (ONCFS, 2006).

• Professional training on Experimenting on animals, Level I (Marseille, France, 2014).

• Professional training on Wildlife Transport - Certificat d’Aptitude Professionnelle pour le Transport d’Animaux Vivants (CAPTAV) – catégorie Animaux Sauvages (2018).

• Professional training on large carnivore damage investigations (ONCFS, 2018).

Population sampling

camera trapping, line transect and distance sampling, pellet-group count, CMR, non-invasive genetic sampling.

• Professional training on bear non-invasive monitoring (especially tracks, hair, feces identification and collection) (ONCFS, Réseau Ours Brun, 2018).

VHF and GPS tracking

of movements.

Behavioural observations

e.g., vigilance, social interactions.

Vegetation sampling

for wildlife habitat use analyses.

Molecular ecology

Genetic lab work

DNA extraction (skin, blood, hairs, faeces), DNA amplification (simple and multiplex PCR), genotyping, agarose gel ; microsatellite development, optimisation and screening ; molecular sexing.

Population and landscape genetics analyses

parentage analysis, relatedness and heterozygosity measures, genetic diversity, population structure, genetic distance, F-statistics, population assignment, Isolation by Distance, demographic history inferences using ABC.

Biostatistics & modelling

General biostatistics and modelling

parametric and non-parametric basic statistical tests, multivariate analyses, linear models and generalized linear models, mixed models, individual-based models, etc.

Spatial statistics

multivariate analysis of raster maps, applications in home range analysis (e.g., kernels), habitat selection analysis (e.g., ENFA, K-select, OMI), habitat suitability maps.

Phylogenetic comparative analyse

phylogenetically independent contrasts, phylogenetic GLM.

Computer

Office software applications

• • Windows Office, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access).

Statistical softwares

• • R (Ph.D. training 2005 ; INRA professional training 2004).

  • NetLogoR package (OFB-CNRS professional training 2021).

  • SysStat, Statistica, SPSS.

Geographic Information System softwares

• • ArcView and ArcGIS (MSc. training, 1999 ; professional training, INRA, 2005).

  • QGIS (professional training, ONCFS, 3 days, 2018).

Genetic softwares

• • parentage and relatedness analysis (Cervus, ML-relate, Gimlet, Kinship, Internal Relatedness)

  • population and landscape genetics (GenePop, Genetix, F-stat, GeneClass, Structure, Alleles In Space, MSAnalyser, IBD, SPAGeDI, GenAlEx, TESS, GENELAND, TreevIew, Adegenet R package, DIYABC, Bottleneck, MSA, Phylip, BAPS, SamBada, sGD, CDPOP, UNICOR…)

  • marker development and primer design (Primer 3, NetPrimer, MSATcommander, Micro-Checker)

  • genotyping (Genotyper, Genescan, GeneMapper).

Spring School "Landscape genetics in transition to landscape genomics" (2014, Bertinoro, Italy).

Bioinformatics

• • NCBI, BLAST, Galaxy, FASTA. Notions sur Velvet, SAMtools et PHYLIP.

  • Notions in the use of Velvet, SAMtools and PHYLIP.

Professional training on the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data from non-model organisms (IGC, Oeiras, Portugal, 4-6th June 2012).

Capture-recapture softwares

• • Mark, Capture.

  • Notions in Presence and SECR.

Languages

French: mother tongue.

English: fluent (read, spoken, written; including scientific English).

• Learned at school during 9 years.

• Lived and worked during 1 year in New Zealand (2007-2008) and during 6 months in Australia (2009-2010).

• My PhD was written and defended in English.

Spanish: confirmed level A2 (read, spoken, written).

• Attended a professional training by GRETA in 2018 (50 hours) and 2021 (28 hours).

• Regular work and professional meetings with Spanish partners.

Russian: intermediate level (read, spoken and written).

• Learned at school during 7 years.

• 2-week scholar travel in Russia in 1994.

Portuguese: elementary level (read, spoken notions).

• Lived and worked during 2.5 years in Portugal (2010-2012).

• Attended few Portuguese courses for IGC foreign students and employees in 2012.